Thursday, April 7, 2011

Phishing and compromised email addresses: Kathy Lagoli

So yesterday, I got an email from Kathy @ thingdiamond.com with my business name in the subject line saying, "Hey didn't hear back from you, are you still in business ?"

I never wrote to someone named Kathy Lagoli.

If you get a similar email, it is a phishing email. If you google the name, you will find dozens of folks with similar emails. I have yet to see an actual victim story, but apparently this person is harvesting emails from blogs and attempting to get people to call and talk to them on the phone.

Just so you know.

5 comments:

Kristin said...

I got the same email!!!!!! I am always nervouse about responded to people like this, and I almost felt guilty about not responding. So I went with my gut feeling and googled it. Thanks God you wrote this on here because otherwise I "may" have responded. I am an independent Demonstrator with Stampin' Up and I don't remember everyone's name I come in contact with. The email address seemed very fishy to me. I've never hurt of @thingdiamond.com! I also got an email from a "Alice Rogers " Be on the lookout for that one too!

Thanks for your post!

caramelchaos said...

Thanks for the heads up I was wondering who the hell this person was thanks...

Unknown said...

Hey there! I know I don't know you, but I just googled that e-mail address to make sure I wasn't the only one getting it. I'd never heard of her!

Anyway. I'm writing you mostly because those Koi Magnets in the post below are BEAUTIFUL! And I couldn't leave without telling you how fantastic I think they are!

Conductor said...

Thanks, Leilani, for putting this on your blog. It's what came up when I googled thingdiamond. I got the exact same email and suspected spam.

I appreciate your public service announcement!

Anonymous said...

I also got an email from this person at the email address mentioned. It was about something on a car forum...and the email said "I think I have the wrong email address"....uhh then why are you emailing me? So weird. Glad I found this!